Copper

September 18, 2011

India is now the elephant in the room

New economic numbers from India, the latest forecasts for the country's voracious appetite for gold, iron ore and in particular coal and its plans for a sovereign wealth fund to…

September 18, 2011

Chinese copper demand to surge by 40% by 2015

Reuters quoted an official from the China NonFerrous Metals Industry Association as saying that China's apparent consumption of refined copper will rise by nearly 40% to 8.5 million tonnes per…

September 18, 2011

Industry must live with tax: Rio Tinto

The Daily Mercury reports Rio Tinto executive director Sam Walsh says the mining industry has to live with the new resources tax as the best deal that could be done…

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